Summary of Student Organization Involvement at the University of Oregon:
2021-2022 and Fall-Winter of 2022-2023
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Warnock, A. N. (2023). Summary of Student Engage Data from 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 at the University of Oregon. Office of Assessment and Research, Division of Student Life, University of Oregon.
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Last Updated
March 23, 2023 | 12:01 PM PDT
Using data from the Campus Labs Engage online platform at the University of Oregon (UO), this document summarizes students’ involvement with student organizations during the 2021-2022 academic year and Fall and Winter term of 2022-2023. The Engage website serves as the hub and interface for the administration, management, and student involvement for hundreds of UO student organizations and events, falling under the parent organizations of:
The goals of this project were to provide a more concrete
understanding of:
- the organizations students are participating in,
- how they are involved and engaging,
- whether there are differences or gaps in level of involvement between
student subgroups, and - whether involvement or engagement has changed
over time.
Although organization involvement data has been recorded in the Engage platform to some degree since 2012, the data are most complete and reliable starting with 2021-2022 due to updates in policies requiring and/or strongly encouraging student organization leaders’ and members’ use of the system. As such, the analyses were limited to the 2021-2022 year and the data available for 2022-2023 at the time this project was completed (September 2022 to early March 2023).
For more information about organizations, including their descriptions and additional information, see Table 3.
Student use of Engage includes the administration and management of organizations, creation and tracking of events and event attendance, and maintenance of leadership and member positions. Engage platform user accounts are automatically created for students upon matriculation to the UO. Member, officer, and leadership position status must be manually set by the student or organization administrators. For the majority of organizations, members self-select and there are not barriers to admission. Other organizations, such as Fraternities or Sororities, have closed member lists. Start date and end dates are logged for all positions. Importantly, membership does not necessarily reflect engagement with an organization as anyone who is interested in an open organization can join as a member.
In the following tables and figures, student involvement is summarized and disaggregated by various student demographic characteristics (e.g., level, gender, race/ethnicity, etc.) and academic year. Demographic data were gathered from UO application records and baseline data collection records of the UO’s Student Wellbeing and Success Initiative (SWaSI) project. All counts and percentages in this report are calculated based on available information (i.e., missing data were excluded).
Students included in the sample were those who were members, officers, leaders, or other positions holders of active, valid student organizations in the Engage platform during 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 who were listed in UO enrollment records as being students in 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. There was no exclusion criteria for length of enrollment. Students who were enrolled at any point in Fall, Winter, or Spring term of 2021-2022 and Fall and Winter term of 2021-2022 were included. Organization positions were filtered by start date and end date to determine which academic year(s) students were active in.
In all, this analysis identified 7,645 unique students who held
15,386 member, officer, or leadership positions with 370 student
organizations at UO during the 2021-2022 academic year. Students ended
3,020 of those positions between the first day of 2021-2022 and the
first day of 2022-2023. The average number of memberships and other
positions held by students during 2021-2022 was 2.0125572. The maximum
number of memberships/positions held by an individual student was
rmax(num_positions_perstu21$n).
There were 8,801 unique students who held 17,649 member or leadership
positions for 389 student organizations during Fall or Winter term of
the 2022-2023 academic year (i.e., positions were active at some point
between September 27, 2022 and March 5, 2023). Students ended 1,985 of
those positions between September 27, 2022, and March 5, 2023. The
average number of memberships and other positions held by students
during 2022-2023 was 2.0053403. The maximum number of
memberships/positions held by an individual student was
rmax(num_positions_perstu22$n).
For descriptives of students by various academic and demographic characteristics, please see Tables 1-2 and Figures 1-17 below.
Student involvement data were disaggregated by:
With the exception of gender, sexuality, first-generation status, and socioeconomic variables, this information was pulled from UO academic and application records. Gender and first-generation status were calculated based on a combination of UO application records and SWaSI baseline data. Gender identity from SWaSI records was prioritized over UO application records data because it is more inclusive. In the cases where gender was not available from SWaSI, it was back-filled with gender from application records. Similarly, first-generation status was calculated first based on UO records, back-filling with SWaSI records data as necessary. Sexual orientation and socioeconomic information (students’ perceptions of their global socioeconomic status and their family’s social class) were exclusively gathered from SWaSI records. A combined gender and sexuality variable was calculated based on gender and sexuality.
When reviewing the findings in this document, please be aware of the following limitations and keep them in mind.